Get Your Free Links From…. johnon.com?

I hope that title was at least a little funny.

Anyway, we’re at 204 Sphinns over at the Greatest Hits page, which is great. But with the clamp down on paid links and the difficulties people have getting the “A” list to acknowledge them with links, I feel like we have an opportunity to push onwards. I know my dream of rolling the counter over 999 to 4 digits is rather “lofty”, but I see no reason why we can’t gather a bunch more of the Sphinn folks together on another “thank you” page right here. With desphinning coming soon, our current opportunity to bust the counter may never exist again. Also, I received word that someone is quietly raising Sphinns for himself to try and take the top spot away, which may include some organized desphinning down the road. That just seems so scammy, doesn’t it?

I tried to link out to everyone on the original post, although not everyone provided URLs or asked for links. if I missed anyone let me know now, in this post, and I’ll make it right.

Note about this blog and Paid Links: No, sorry, I won’t accept any offers for paid links from this blog. Please don’t ask. I value this blog and want to protect the integrity of this blog as a trusted web site in the Google universe. I follow the Google Guidelines as best as I can understand them, and I do not accept “paid reviews” unless they are very well funded, and even those will get nofollow links (in most cases). I like to play backgammon online, but that in no way suggests I have been paid for a link to a backgammon site like play65.com. I link to sites I trust and friends I trust. I link not because I am trying to influence search engines, but because I am trying to influence my friends. Duh.

Sorry to be a party-pooper, but we request Sphinn members not to ask for Sphinns through means other than adding a Sphinn button to their site. Although your original post was tolerated, Sphinn is evolving and we don’t want to head in the direction of people paying, bartering or incentivising for Sphinns. I’ll shortly be updating the member guidelines regarding this to make the matter clearer, although in the mean time please consider that we may remove your 200 Sphinn post if you continue to ask people to Sphinn you.

@evilgreenmonkey:Wow. Really? I didn’t know, and I guess I assumed the community would make such decisions. Should we expect a new rel tag for this sometime soon? Perhaps a rel=”nofollow” requirement for all Sphinns tainted by favors or “paying, bartering or incentivising”? Or perhaps you intend to penalize those who Sphinn my post? Or perhaps, you’ll just demote the post to the 30th position on the page, below the fold. Not so easy given the visible “Sphinn Count” up there… or maybe that’s not an actual Sphinn count, but a special Sphinn count just for public display? Hmmm….

Rob come on mate…. ease of the evil part of the green monkey – which is more appropriate because I think you are jealous you did not think of such a great way to do a secondary Sphinn boost half a year later… I know I am!!

If everyone promises not to copy the method can we let this one run?

Drop by SES London and I will gladly ply you with drinks to convince you…